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MODERN HISTORY OF CHINA

Objective chronological listing of significant events leading up to modern China.

1914

• January – National Assembly disbanded by Yuan Shikai.
  
• May – Beijing government announces a new constitution.
  
• June – Japan announces exclusive rights to operate railways in Manchuria.
  
• July – Britain signs agreement with Tibet, establishing the border separating India and Tibet. Tibet achieves de facto independence from China.
  
• July – In Japan, Sun Yat-sen renames the Nationalist Party the Chinese Revolutionary Party. Sun has complete authority.
  
• August - The First World War begins in Europe.
  
• August – Beijing government declares neutrality in the European war.
  
• August – Japan demands German naval vessels leave China and the German colony of Qingdao handed over to Japan.
  
• August – Japan declares war on Germany.
  
• September – Japanese troops land in Shandong province.
  
• November – German defenders in Qingdao surrender to Japanese and British forces.